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´The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which...´Halas & Bachelor studio´s classic and controversial 1954 animation of Animal Farm, George Orwell´s chilling fable of idealism betrayed, was the first ever British animated feature film. This landmark illustrated edition of Orwell´s novel was first published alongside it, and features the original line drawings by the film´s animators, Joy Batchelor and John Halas.

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Orwell, George
Eric Arthur Blair (1903-1950), better known by his pen-name, George Orwell, was born in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. An author and journalist, Orwell was one of the most prominent and influential figures in twentieth-century literature. His unique political allegory Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with the dystopia of Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. His novels and non-fiction include Burmese Days, Down and Out in Paris and London, The Road to Wigan Pier and Homage to Catalonia.

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